Reducing Project Duration by 25%: Magic or Common Sense?
For years, I’ve been telling IT folks how to shorten the duration of their projects: Make the upfront investment in getting the architecture right....
How Predictive Analytics Turns Banks into Fortune Tellers
Did you know those stuffy old financial institutions steeped in tradition have joined the ranks of 21st century companies by employing predictive analytics ,...
What Big Data has Helped Us Learn About Wall Street
So I bet you thought you knew just how big the federal government’s 2008 bailout of the American and European banking industries was—$500 billion,...
Analytics, Rules and Visualizations Changing Global Finance Companies
Financial companies are making bigger, faster and ever more complex decisions using huge quantities of data and requiring analytics horsepower. Details of the impact...
Business Intelligence: Its Progression into Financial Services Analytics
Jay Morreale, first vice president of enterprise credit and market risk technology for Bank of America has a wonderful account of the genesis of...
TIBCO and Netezza Managing Massive Data for the Financial Services Masses
Dan Vesset is Program Vice President of IDC's Business Analytics research. Mr. Vesset’s research is currently focused on the business intelligence and analytic applications...
On Our Way to 100 Bank Failures This Year – Risks to Your Loan...
As the United States, unfortunately, moves closer and closer to 100 bank failures this year, risk managers must look deeper and deeper at risk levels...
Fraud: The Downturn’s 4-Letter Word for Financial Services
According to the latest edition of the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report, the financial services industry is being most severely hit by fraud in...
Solvency II and Planning – Did We Learn Anything from Sarbanes-Oxley?
We read with great interest this article from TradingMarkets.com on the current state of opinion surrounding Solvency II in the European Union. The...
Using Business Intelligence Tools to Automate Operational Risk Management
We’ve admittedly bitten off a large chunk of subject matter with this blog topic. We believe that business intelligence (BI) tools would be a...